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Chapter IIChapter II The Colonial Period:1590-1750 The Colonial Period:1590-1750 2.1The Narratives of Colonial Establishment and Exploration 2.2 The Puritan Ideas and Its Literary Presentation 2.3 The Consciousness of History and the Narratives 2.4 Bradstreet and Early American Poetry 1.2.2 The Puritan Ideas and Its Literary Presentation A.The story of the Puritans 1543,King Henry VIII,the Church of England,Protestant national church,the Pope and Roman Catholicism,“purify”doctrines,King James(1566-1625)and Charles I(1625-1649),Separatists,Puritans,Calvinism,John Calvin(1509-1564),Martin Luther(1483-1546),Lutherans 2.B.Puritan beliefs covenant,original sin,total depravity,predestination,limited atonementPuritan values:hard work,thrift,piety and sobriety 3.C.Representatives of Puritanisma.John Cotton(1584-1652)“the Patriarch of New England”pulpit，sermon The Way of Life(1641,生命之路)A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace(1654，恩典之约论)4.5.b.Roger Williams(1603-1683)The Bloody Tenet of Persecution for Cause of Conscience,Discussed in a Conference between Truth and Peace(1644)(血腥的迫害教义)A Key into the Language of America 美洲语言秘诀“Implicit Dialogue”6.7.c.Cotton Mather(1663-1728)科顿马瑟 philanthropist,clerical politician and author Magnalia Christi Americana(1702)基督在北美的辉煌(or The Ecclesastical History of New England新英格兰宗教史)8.d.Jonathan Edwards(1703-1758)乔纳森爱德华兹Americas first systematic philosopher the Great Awakening Freedom of the Will(1754,论意志自由)The Great Christian Doctrine of Original Sin(1758,论原罪)The Nature of True Virtue(1765,论真实德行的本原)9.2.3 2.3 The The Consciousness Consciousness of of History History and and the the NarrativesNarratives历史意识与殖民地叙史文学 A.William Bradford(1590-1657)威廉布拉福德“Father of American History”History of Plymouth Plantation 普利茅斯种植园史(1630,1856)10.B.John Winthrop(1588-1649)约翰温斯罗普 The History of New England(two volumes,1825,1826)新英格兰史)1630-1649 in diary11.A Model of Christian Charity A Model of Christian Charity 基督慈善之典范 Governor John Winthrop s most famous thesis,written on board the Arbella,1630.12.2.4 Bradstreet and Edward Taylor and Early American Poetry布拉德斯特里特与早期美国诗歌A.Anne Bradstreet(ca.1612-1672)13.The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America,*by a Gentlewoman of Those Parts(“Quaternions”,or groups of four:“The Four Elements”,“The Four Humors”,“The Four Ages of Man”,“The Four Seasons”)14.To My Dear and Loving HusbandTo My Dear and Loving Husband If ever two were one,then surely we.If ever man were loved by wife,then thee;If ever wife was happy in a man,Compare with me ye women if you can.I prize thy love more than whole minds of gold,Or all the riches that the East doth hold.My love is such that rivers cannot quench,Nor ought but love from thee recompense.Thy love is such I can no way repay;The heavens reward thee manifold,I pray.Then while we live,in love lets so persevere,That when we live no more we may live ever.15.致我亲爱的丈夫如果曾经两人默契，那是我和你。如果有丈夫被妻子钟爱，那就是你；如果有妻子与丈夫幸福温馨，同我比一比，女士们，如果可能。我珍惜你的爱胜过黄金矿藏，胜过东方拥有的无尽宝藏，我的爱百川之水不能浇熄，除了你的爱，别无它物能够平抑。你的爱如此丰盛我无法回报，只能祈求上天给予你许多酬劳。在世之时，让我们如此相亲相爱，百年之后，我们才能使生命永在。16.Contemplation(completed about 1666)Stanzas 17 celebrate the beauty of external beauty;Stanzas 820 retell the fall of man in the midst of Eden and the promise of his redemption;Stanzas 2128 describe the felicity of nonhuman creatures absolved from moral responsibility;final Stanzas 2933 return to the present conditions of mankind 17.O Time,the fatal wrack of mortal things,That draws oblivions curtains over kings,Their sumptuous monuments,men know them out,Their names without a record are forgot,Their parts,their ports,their pomps all laid in thdust,Nor wit nor gold nor buildings scape times rust;But he whose name is graved in the white stoneShall last and shine when all of these are gone.18.B.Edward Taylor(ca.1642-1729)“wilderness baroque”The Poems of Edward Taylor(1960)19.Conclusion:American Puritanism stressed predestination,original sin,total depravity,and limited atonement form Gods grace.Puritan values:hard work,thrift,piety and sobriety The writing style is fresh,simple and direct;the rhetoric is plain and honest,with a touch of nobility often traceable to the direct influence of the Bible.20.